If you leak it, not only do it on the sly in a manner that can't be traced to you (or you'll probably never be hired in a position of trust again!) but have an authentication method that can PROVE it's you in case the Feds come looking and you need to roll over.
I want my dystopia NOW! Only then will my combination of paranoia and carefully acquired l33t survival skills learned in my mothers basement be validated. I need dystopia the way the Bible Thumpers need the Apocalypse, and I've spent a long time getting ready:
"who cares about this ship anymore anyway? housewifes?"
Essentially, yes. The Titanic is a delectable story because of the range of drama, suffering, and morality plays. People have been fapping to it as an entertaining distraction from their boring lives since it was first reported, and it will remain fapworthy forever.
Props to the scientists and researchers who shrewdly exploited popular fascination with Titanic to get funding to study it. The public got entertained, and the techies got funded to play in the ocean. It's an example worth emulating.
The diesel emissions controls for those cars would not be a fuel _mileage_ problem if fitted, just an expense problem for the companies trying to market the cars here. Not everything sold in Europe would sell here, because gas and diesel are still cheap compared to EU prices.
Another major factor is crash testing. EU-style small cars are frequently too light to pass.
I'd look at 3000 grit cloth first. Once you get into the grit levels that are used for things like removing scratches on aircraft canopies you are less likely to hork your screen. The patience required to get a uniform finish (many hours) will be a test of will.:)
Ships aren't made with a cookie cutter, and do fun stuff such as stop at ports while leaving a trail of interactions with port authorities and customers.
Granted, the NeoCons have replaced Satan and the Illuminati as the Unified Source of World Evil (more comforting that multiple Evil sources combined with the Shit Happens factor) so you might be right.:)
"If I were to take this article at face value, I'd say it's an attempt at sticking it to the army for not taking better care of its stuff. While I'm all for that, it stops being funny once non sequitur allegations are made about certain foreign countries. Then it becomes a transparent attempt at instilling paranoia among the public."
You are quite right!
The list of stuff isn't impressive. We should be impressed by a fucking used NBC suit? Literally millions of the things have been produced from the Cold War onward. They are not classified. The "used" (= charcoal no workee no more, washed multiple times so it doesn't stain your uniform black) suits are in every G.I.s NBC training bag and many surplus stores and are NOT illegal to possess!
Neither are uniforms, with the caveat that you must buy them or be issued them and not (no shit) steal them. Anybody who wants to can buy them (or nicer private brands) online at U.S. Cavalry, Brigade Quartermasters, etc. G.I.s often spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on aftermarket gear.
I'm sure some illegal gear ends up on Ebay (SAPI plates, etc) but it would be nice to see WHICH "F-14" parts were there. Just because a National Stock Number crosses to an F-14 doesn't make it strategic material.
I did 26 years (Comm/Nav. Engines,Crew Chief) in the USAF and am familiar with aircraft, parts, supply, and buying stuff outta surplus even before it was outsourced to GovLiquidation. The WaPo piece is IMO bullshit fearmongering and reflects their dislike for the military.
"So basically his life is ruined, even if he honestly tries to redeem myself afterwards, because he'll be forever known as the infamous first criminal to be caught thanks to the almighty Internet."
Alternative interpretation:
"So this person who has proven that he does not care about the property rights of others (at a minimum!) is identified so it will be more difficult for him to rip off more people in the future."
"We can't afford the lobbyists required to get it changed."
That, and the Christian Taliban (Muslinm Taliban lack leverage because Islam is weak in the US) disapprove of all pleasure not connected with worship of their imaginary celestial friend. The church must control pleasure to control the flock, and that control is valuable to churchmen from the late Father Geoghan and Jim Jones, to Warren Jeffs and his old-school semi-Mormons. The most frightening thing to a fundamentalist is a happy human they haven't enslaved.
"If you really want to destroy yourself, do it outside the realm of society. But of course, these junkies don't hold such noble notions of personal responsibility, so you can't expect them (nor society) to act in accord with such notions."
It can be argued that it's cheaper to let junkies have their smack via maintenance programs than absorb the costs of crime incident to the illegality of heroin. Junkies destroying themselves is no loss to good citizens, as we can just write them off as they do themselves. OTOH, junkies violating our property rights and endangering our safety by committing crimes is a direct threat. I personally don't care if people destroy themselves voluntarily. They belong to themselves, not to me.
" Not when it affects those in society. Ie, if you overdose and cannot afford health insurance, are rushed to the ER and tax payer money pays for your treatment and recovery, then it is our business."
Ah, the public burden theory. Wake me when that "burden" is interpreted to include the costs of investigating, trying and imprisoning people for victimless crimes.
"If I were a terrorist, I'd just lob a grenade over the chain link fence into a big substation."
Grenades wouldn't take out much if anything, because they are small. "Wrecking" (the old Soviet term for such sabotage) is easily done with common tools, found chemicals, and found objects. Fiddling with explosives or conventional weapons is silly when the cheaper and unregulated alternatives would work much better.
"And now there's rioting in Haiti over food shortages (i.e. prices). So, the first human sacrifices at the altar of the Global Warming religion are occurring right now."
No, some sacrifices of people who refused to focus on creating an agriculturally productive society are occurring right now. Adults who decides not to make their countries self-sufficient in food are responsible, not anyone else. This is how economics weeds out the stupid, and IMO its nice to see the US make a buck on the high grain prices.
When you have problems with such stuff, it wouldn't hurt to list the hardware involved. Chances are high someone else has had and solved the same problem. I've never had slipstreaming problems, but I throw all the likely drivers I can find on the CD the first time to improve my odds.
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It's as easy to RTFE as to ask about it in a post. :)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/proeula.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx
"You may also store or install a copy of the Product on a storage device, such as a network
server, used only to install or run the Product on your other Workstation Computers over an internal network;"
"Software is already waving around, or more accurately flying around, weapons."
In the case of the F-16, since (maiden flight) 1974.
"Or perhaps you have a 5-foot-wide ass and thus huge pockets in your trousers."
It was obviously designed for the US market.
Hi APK!
You represent yourself with style and class.
If you leak it, not only do it on the sly in a manner that can't be traced to you (or you'll probably never be hired in a position of trust again!) but have an authentication method that can PROVE it's you in case the Feds come looking and you need to roll over.
"So step off Sgt. Buzzkill."
I want my dystopia NOW!
Only then will my combination of paranoia and carefully acquired l33t survival skills learned in my mothers basement be validated. I need dystopia the way the Bible Thumpers need the Apocalypse, and I've spent a long time
getting ready:
http://www.paratrooper.net/commo/Uploads/Images/146462ee-ffe7-485d-8160-bf76.jpg
"who cares about this ship anymore anyway? housewifes?"
Essentially, yes. The Titanic is a delectable story because of the range of drama, suffering, and morality plays. People have been fapping to it as an entertaining distraction from their boring lives since it was first reported, and it will remain fapworthy forever.
Props to the scientists and researchers who shrewdly exploited popular fascination with Titanic to get funding to study it. The public got entertained, and the techies got funded to play in the ocean. It's an example worth emulating.
The diesel emissions controls for those cars would not be a fuel _mileage_ problem if fitted, just an expense problem for the companies trying to market the cars here.
Not everything sold in Europe would sell here, because gas and diesel are still cheap compared to EU prices.
Another major factor is crash testing. EU-style small cars are frequently too light to pass.
"Don't you mean the EPA showed up and made them meet air quality controls?"
That doesn't tend to affect fuel mileage. Weight and "feature bloat" do.
http://www.geoeye.com/products/imagery/geoeye1/default.htm is an example of commercial imagery. Pretty good, and good enough combined with a records check to identify ships.
"At least now we know all we have to do is drag and anchor to disrupt the communications infrastructure of entire countries."
Radios and landlines and satellites don't count?
I'd look at 3000 grit cloth first. Once you get into the grit levels that are used for things like removing scratches on aircraft canopies you are less likely to hork your screen. :)
The patience required to get a uniform finish (many hours) will be a test of will.
"Is it your years in the CIA or your years in the conspiracy nutjob section of the bookstore that make you so knowledgeable?"
Yes.
Ships aren't made with a cookie cutter, and do fun stuff such as stop at ports while leaving a trail of interactions with port authorities and customers.
:)
Granted, the NeoCons have replaced Satan and the Illuminati as the Unified Source of World Evil (more comforting that multiple Evil sources combined with the Shit Happens factor) so you might be right.
"If I were to take this article at face value, I'd say it's an attempt at sticking it to the army for not taking better care of its stuff. While I'm all for that, it stops being funny once non sequitur allegations are made about certain foreign countries. Then it becomes a transparent attempt at instilling paranoia among the public."
You are quite right!
The list of stuff isn't impressive. We should be impressed by a fucking used NBC suit? Literally millions of the things have been produced from the Cold War onward. They are not classified. The "used" (= charcoal no workee no more, washed multiple times so it doesn't stain your uniform black) suits are in every G.I.s NBC training bag and many surplus stores and are NOT illegal to possess!
Neither are uniforms, with the caveat that you must buy them or be issued them and not (no shit) steal them. Anybody who wants to can buy them (or nicer private brands) online at U.S. Cavalry, Brigade Quartermasters, etc. G.I.s often spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on aftermarket gear.
Wanna legal mask?
http://www.approvedgasmasks.com/msa-mcu2p.htm
Whole NBC ensembles?
http://www.approvedgasmasks.com/mask-kits.htm
I'm sure some illegal gear ends up on Ebay (SAPI plates, etc) but it would be nice to see WHICH "F-14" parts were there. Just because a National Stock Number crosses to an F-14 doesn't make it strategic material.
Wanna see everything that's for sale legally from Uncle Sugar? You can even bid online:
http://www.govliquidation.com/
I did 26 years (Comm/Nav. Engines,Crew Chief) in the USAF and am familiar with aircraft, parts, supply, and buying stuff outta surplus even before it was outsourced to GovLiquidation. The WaPo piece is IMO bullshit fearmongering and reflects their dislike for the military.
"Tie cheese wire around your neck"
I'm an American and our cheese is "wireless" (as well as, arguably, "cheeseless") you insensitive clod!
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/2b/250px-American_cheese.jpg.jpg
"When police try to use these methods, we are full of "big brother" gloom. "
:)
That would be due to a fundamental hatred of law enforcement, government, and The Man (until someone steals YOUR shit!).
"So basically his life is ruined, even if he honestly tries to redeem myself afterwards, because he'll be forever known as the infamous first criminal to be caught thanks to the almighty Internet."
Alternative interpretation:
"So this person who has proven that he does not care about the property rights of others (at a minimum!) is identified so it will be more difficult for him to rip off more people in the future."
"We can't afford the lobbyists required to get it changed."
That, and the Christian Taliban (Muslinm Taliban lack leverage because Islam is weak in the US) disapprove of all pleasure not connected with worship of their imaginary celestial friend. The church must control pleasure to control the flock, and that control is valuable to churchmen from the late Father Geoghan and Jim Jones, to Warren Jeffs and his old-school semi-Mormons.
The most frightening thing to a fundamentalist is a happy human they haven't enslaved.
"If you really want to destroy yourself, do it outside the realm of society. But of course, these junkies don't hold such noble notions of personal responsibility, so you can't expect them (nor society) to act in accord with such notions."
It can be argued that it's cheaper to let junkies have their smack via maintenance programs than absorb the costs of crime incident to the illegality of heroin. Junkies destroying themselves is no loss to good citizens, as we can just write them off as they do themselves. OTOH, junkies violating our property rights and endangering our safety by committing crimes is a direct threat.
I personally don't care if people destroy themselves voluntarily. They belong to themselves, not to me.
" Not when it affects those in society. Ie, if you overdose and cannot afford health insurance, are rushed to the ER and tax payer money pays for your treatment and recovery, then it is our business."
Ah, the public burden theory. Wake me when that "burden" is interpreted to include the costs of investigating, trying and imprisoning people for victimless crimes.
"If I were a terrorist, I'd just lob a grenade over the chain link fence into a big substation."
Grenades wouldn't take out much if anything, because they are small. "Wrecking" (the old Soviet term for such sabotage) is easily done with common tools, found chemicals, and found objects. Fiddling with explosives or conventional weapons is silly when the cheaper and unregulated alternatives would work much better.
Hello anonymous APK!
"And now there's rioting in Haiti over food shortages (i.e. prices). So, the first human sacrifices at the altar of the Global Warming religion are occurring right now."
No, some sacrifices of people who refused to focus on creating an agriculturally productive society are occurring right now. Adults who decides not to make their countries self-sufficient in food are responsible, not anyone else.
This is how economics weeds out the stupid, and IMO its nice to see the US make a buck on the high grain prices.
Those HP tools are also popular for prepping USB sticks to boot DOS, Linux, and BartPE.
When you have problems with such stuff, it wouldn't hurt to list the hardware involved. Chances are high someone else has had and solved the same problem. I've never had slipstreaming problems, but I throw all the likely drivers I can find on the CD the first time to improve my odds.